New Horizons just completed its first successful stellar navigation test in deep space, a groundbreaking moment for ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Technicians integrate NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock into its Orbital Test Bed Earth-orbiting satellite, which will launch on the STP-2 mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in June 2019.

This is how we’ll validate DSAC’s utility for deep space one-way radio navigation. In the late 1700s, navigating the high seas was forever changed by John Harrison’s development of the H4 ...

Today, exploring deep space requires traveling distances that are orders of magnitude greater than the lengths of oceans, and demands tools with ever more precision for safe navigation.

Scientists are working on a way to replace radio-based space navigation with a cosmic GPS that uses pulsars to fix a spaceship within a radius of two kilometers (1.2 mi) at the distance from Earth ...

Deep space navigation is going old-school. The International Space Station resupply mission that blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in the predawn hours of May 21 carried high-tech ...

The Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) is finally ready for testing, and NASA's JPL has begun preparing it for launch this year after working on it for two decades. Current space vehicles and ...